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Reel baseball : baseball films from the silent era, 1899-1926.
LIBRA DVD 002 168 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Edelman, Rob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Drama.
- Baseball.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Short films.
- Sports films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (253 min) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Baseball films from the silent era, 1899-1926
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino International, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Silent with musical accompaniment, except for Casey at the Bat (in English).
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A collection of films about baseball.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. Headin' home ; Kinogram ; His last game ; The ball player and the bandit
- Disc 2. The busher ; Casey at the bat or, The fate of a "rotten" umpire ; How the office boy saw the ball game ; Hearts and diamonds ; One touch of nature ; Felix saves the day ; Casey at the bat ; Butter fingers ; Happy days.
- Participant:
- DVD 1. Headin' home / Babe Ruth ; Kinogram / Babe Ruth ; The ball player and the bandit / Harold Lockwood.
- DVD 2. The busher / Charles Ray. Hearts and diamonds / John Bunny. One touch of nature / John J. McGraw. Casey at the bat (1922, 6 min.) / DeWolf Hopper. Butter fingers / Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Ruth Taylor. Happy days / Ethelyn Gibson and Billy Butts.
- Credits:
- DVD 1. Headin' home / photographer, Ollie Leach ; titles by "Bugs" Baer ; original score by David Knudtson. Kinogram / music, Ben Model ; His last game / music, David Drazin ; The ball player and the bandit / music, David Drazin.
- DVD 2. The busher / music, David Drazin. Casey at the bat or, The fate of a "rotten" umpire, How the office boy saw the ball game, Hearts and diamonds, One touch of nature, Felix saves the day, Casey at the bat, Happy days / music, Ben Model.
- Notes:
- Headin' home (1920, 73 min.) / presented by Kessel & Baumann ; produced by Yankee Photo Corp'n. Kinogram (undated, 1 min.) / distributed by Educational Pictures ; His last game (1909, 12 min.) / Independent Moving Pictures Co., from the collection of The Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. The ball player and the bandit (1912, 12 min.) / Broncho Film Company ; directed by Francis Ford ; from the collection of The Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Butter fingers (1925, 16 min.) / directed by Del Lord ; scenario by Jefferson Moffitt ;
- The busher (1919, 55 min.) / a Thomas H. Ince production ; directed by Jerome Stern ; scenario, R. Cecil Smith ; story by Earle Snell. Casey at the bat or, The fate of a "rotten" umpire (fragment, 1899, 1 min.) / Thomas A. Edison Co. ; producer, James White. How the office boy saw the ball game (fragment, 1906, 5 min.) / Thomas A. Edison Co. Hearts and diamonds ; (1914, 33 min.) / The Vitagraph Co. of America. One touch of nature (excerpts, 1917, 18 min.) / The Thomas A. Edison Studios present ; by Peter B. Kyne. Felix saves the day (1922, 7 min.) / animated cartoon by Pat Sullivan ; Casey at the bat (1922, 6 min.) / DeForest Phonofilms. Butter fingers (1925, 16 min.) / directed by Del Lord ; scenario by Jefferson Moffitt. Happy days (1926, 14 min.) / Weiss Bros. present ; distributed by Artclass Pictures ; directed by Arvid Gillstrom ; based on the comic strip Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner by Martin Branner ; titled by Al Martin ; produced by Billy West.
- Originally produced as 13 films between 1899-1926.
- Special feature (disc 1): essay by Rob Edelman.
- Headin' home / performed on the Ted M. Larson Memorial Theatre Pipe Organ, Minnesota State University Moorhead ; print courtesy of Rusty Casselton and the Larson-Casselton Collection.
- "Film elements provided by Dennis Atkinson, Film Preservation associates, the Larson-Casselton Collection, The Library of Congress and Lobster Films."--Container.
- Contains:
- Headin' home
- Kinogram
- His last game
- Ball player and the bandit
- Busher
- Casey at the bat or, The fate of a "rotten" umpire
- How the office boy saw the ball game
- Hearts and diamonds
- One touch of nature
- Felix saves the day
- Casey at the bat
- Butter fingers
- Happy days
- OCLC:
- 86116114
- Publisher Number:
- 738329052928
- K529 Kino International
- K529-1 Kino International (disc 1)
- K529-2 Kino International (disc 2)
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